WordNet: payback, retribution, vengeance

the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19; "Vengeance is mine"; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield"; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution"